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Investing in our mental health: Priorities for the NHS ten-year plan

Centre for Mental Health

The nations mental health is getting worse, with an especially significant increase in levels of distress among children and young people over recent years. The health and social costs of maternal depression, anxiety, and psychosis were estimated to carry long-term economic and social costs of approximately 8.1

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Ethics & Equity: Studying Social Media’s Impact Through Youth-Centered Participatory Research

Child Mind Intitute

They talk about how including youth in research on tech and mental health can improve access to care by making digital care solutions fit the needs of more diverse populations. Unfortunately, any research study involving participants under the age of 18 is rare because it is difficult to ethically do.

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“A Dangerous Substance”: The Impact of Social Media on Youth Mental Health

Mad in America

Since age 10 or 11, when she first started dancing with a youth ballet company, she would pull up Instagram and fixate on other dancers—looking at their bodies, comparing them with hers. Every other day, it seems, some new article appears on declines in child and adolescent wellbeing and spikes in suicide attempts and self-harm.